'One Sikh stood upon the parapet with great gallantry and threw three bombs beautifully into the middle of the Germans.'
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The event of the summer is coming! 'Empire Faith & War: The Sikhs and World War One' Exhibition opens 9 July at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), London.
'To show their contempt for death, some Sikhs had refused to hide in the trenches'
A big thank you to everyone we met at the Trafalgar Square, Coventry & Wolverhampton Vaisakhi melas yesterday!
The Centenary commemorations have been preceded by much publicity and rethinking of that momentous and terrible event in modern world history.
On Vaisakhi 1699, the Tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh, established a new order of warrior-saints, the Khalsa. A revolutionary transformation of a community was enshrined in the sacred act of initiation by steel.
A former dustman, Bob Smethurst, has amassed one of the Britain's best collections of First World War photographs after spending decades rescuing them from rubbish tips and bins.
Researching your village's First World War dead.
'Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile'.
First World War: 'Stories of the Empire - The Sikh fighter pilot & the Red Baron!'